ravening

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
美 /ˈɹævənɪŋ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Predation (by an animal); voracious eating or consumption. archaic,literary
    — Some rather deuoure than eate their meate non other wyse than suche as be ledde in to prison. This rauenyng and deuourynge is appropred to theues.
  2. Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.
    — We must kyll diuelish pryde, furious angre, insatiable couetousnes, filthy lucre, stinking lechery, deadly hatred & malice, foxy wilines, woluish rauening & deuouring, and al other vnreasonable lustes and desires of the fleshe.
形容词 adj.
  1. Voracious and greedy.
    — There is no shortage of ravening friends and relatives on the day one hits the lottery.
  2. Subject to the voracity of a predator. archaic
    — To be the strongers rauening pray the weaker did begin, And might went for oppressed right […]

词形变化

more ravening comparative most ravening superlative ravenings plural

词汇关系

衍生词
raveningly

词源

词源 1
Present participle of the obsolete verb raven (“to prey”).
词源 2
Present participle of the obsolete verb raven (“to prey”).
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